Hindi Movie Review Shortkut - Cast & Crew

Amrita Rao was born on June 7, 1981 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her sister is Preetika Rao and she is active in the film industry from the year of 2002. Amrita is a Bollywood actress and she had also acted in a few Telugu movies as well. Her debut movie is As Ke Baras (2002). Ishq Vishq (2003) movie had brought her fame to the audiences and then she got a huge fan following. Vivah (2006) is regarded to be the blockbuster movie and her acting was felicitated to the epitome of horizon. Sulemani Keeda movie got released in the year 2014. As of date, she had acted in about 17 movies.

Simi Garewal, popularly known as "The Lady in White" because of her signature white clothes, is an Indian actress and a popular TV host. She was born on 17 October 1947 in Ludhiana, in a Jatt Sikh family. Her father, J S Garewal served in the Indian Army, rising to the rank of brigadier. Simi grew up in England and studied at Newland House School with her sister Amrita. After spending much of her childhood in England, she returned to India.

Amita Nangia is a Bollywood character artist. She has played roles in more than 40 Bollywood movies. She made her debut in Ghabrahat in the year 1989. Some of the movies she has acted are unreleased, like Maut and Jagadambey Maa. she had acted in various A, B, C grade movies as well. She was recognized for her role in TV Serial Tara which was broadcasted on Zee T.V. Besides those, she also acted in serials like Ek Chabi Hai Pados Mein, Saath Phere and, recently, in Zee TV’s Ek Veer Stree Ki Kahaani Jhansi Ki Rani. She has spent two decades as an artist. When she started her career, she was under prepared and rarely got opportunities to work. Ekta Kapoor once saw her and offered her a role. She has done movies like Purani Haveli, Afsana Pyar Ka, Chup Chup Ke, Old is Gold, Koi Mere Dil Main Hai, Deewnpaan, Kahani Saali Jeeja Ki, Ajnabee, Censor, Raja, Bali Umar ko salam, Ghar Jamai, Hatyanri, Bhaagi, College Girl and many more. Besides, she has keen towards collection of hats, singing and acting. Soon she will be playing a lead as a mother in upcoming serial which is not named yet on Imagine Channel. She will be acting as modern mom, being very practical, who likes to dress well and show off. Amita Nangia says that the character is similar to that of her own life and she would enjoy to work as it will be easy her to act taking her own life situation.

Neeraj Vora originally from Gujarat is a Film Director, Actor, Writer, Composer in Bollywood industry. As a director, he directed great films though he carved a niche for himself as a writer with the Perfectionist of Bollywood Aamir Khan through the Hindi movie Rangeela In 2000, he made his directional debut in a movie named “Khiladi 420” which didn’t do well.

Whenever we see the above personality, we remember the name Tsunami, which is a very popular character in the Salman Khan Starrer ‘Bodyguard.' The real name of Tsunami is Rajat Rawail, a famous producer in the Bollywood who has given great hits to the industry with the movies like ‘Ready,’ ‘Rowdy Rathore,’ etc. He had also directed quite a few films. All in all, he is a producer, actor, and director in the Bollywood.

Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a very popular Bollywood actor cum producer. He is active in the films right from the year 1979 until the present. He got married with Sunita Kapoor in the year 1984. He has three children, namely Sonam Kapoor, who is a Bollywood actress, Rhea Kapoor, who is a Bollywood producer and Harshvarshan Kapoor. Anil Kapoor is the son of Surinder Kapoor and Nirmal. 

His father was a very prominent Indian film producer. Anil Kapoor had a profession as a Bollywood actor for about twenty five successful years. As right now, he is quite busy working in the international movies. He is best known for producing the film Gandhi, My Father. Hamare Tumhare is his first movie, which got released in the year 1979 and he had done a supporting character. He gained his name as an actor with the movie Vamsa Vruksham (1970), a Telugu movie. 

After that part of time, he got a big opportunity to work with a legendary director of Indian Cinema who took the level of Indian film industry to International level and even beyond imagination. Maniratnam is such an icon and every actor has a lifetime dream of working in a single movie with him. But Anil Kapoor is so deserving and fortunate to get an occasion to work with this huge legend. The name of the movie is Pallavi Anu Pallavi which is a Kannada movie and this is the debut movie in Kannada for the actor. 

He acted in multiple film industries in many movies and at the mean time he won many Filmfare Awards subsequently. His debut International movie was such a global hit and it is a great breakthrough for him too. He won an Award for the National Award winning movie namely, Slumdog Millionaire. He established himself as a singer as well and his recent release is a Hindi movie namely, Welcome Back that got released in 2015.

Sunil Manchanda is a director and producer in the Indian film industry who works mainly in Bollywood films and was born in India. He is an advertisement producer as well. He is the owner and also the managing director or CEO of the company called MAD films which is a television commercial production house and premiere film. This production house started in 1991.

July 29, 1959, was the day when the two legends of cinema Sunil Dutt and Nargis gave birth to the ‘Munna Bhai’ of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt in Bombay. Almost all are aware that Sanjay Dutt’s life is like a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs in his personal as well as professional life. But this man has never lost hope and is still struggling to get into a normal life as he is behind the bars since 2013 because of the TADA case. He went to Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. In his teenage years, due to peer pressure, he started taking drugs. For almost nine years he took heroin and cocaine as drug intakes and after a long period he realized that he should quit it all and wished to live a normal life.

Akshaye Khanna is a popular Indian film actor. He was born on March 28, 1975, in Mumbai, Maharashtra in India to Bollywood actor, Vinod Khanna and Geetanjali Khanna. His brother, Rahul Khanna is also an actor and they are both members of South Mumbai’s Royal Willingdon Sports Club. Akshaye studied at Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai. 

After this, he was debuted in the Bollywood romance film, Himalay Putra in the year 1997, along with Hema Malini, Satish Shah, and Johnny Lever. This film was produced by his father, but it became unsuccessful at the box-office. In the same year, he acted in Sunny Deol-starrer film, Border. His role as the 2nd Lieutenant was initially offered to Aamir Khan, but due to date issues, the actor declined the offer and so Akshaye was cast in the film. He earned the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut and got nominated at the Star Screen Award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the year 1998. Followed by this, was a string of not so successful films including, Mohabbat, Kudrat, Love You Hamesha, Laawaris, and Dahek: A Burning Passion from the year 1997 to 1999. 

Akshaye was starred in the Bollywood romantic drama musical film, Aa Ab Laut Chalen, alongside Rajesh Khanna. Though the film did an average business at the box-office, he received praises for his brilliant acting. Akshaye acted opposite Aishwarya Rai in the critical and commercial Bollywood romantic drama film, Taal, which was helmed by Subhash Ghai. In the year 2001, Akshaye appeared in the multi-starrer comedy-drama film, Dil Chahta Hai, alongside Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Kulkarni, Preity Zinta and Dimple Kapadia. This film became a defining moment in his career as it turns out to be a commercial and critical success. Initially, his role as Sid was offered to Abhishek Bachchan, but he turned it down, and so Akshaye was cast in the film and was applauded by his brilliant performance. He also earned the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and his career was re-launched. In 2002, he played as a villain in Bobby Deol-starrer Humraaz. This film earned him critical acclaim and a nomination at the Filmfare for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Later, he shifted to doing comedy films and was cast in the Priyadarshan’s Hungama in 2003 and Hulchul in 2004; both films made it to the box-office success.

This was followed by lukewarm and unsuccessful films like Aap Ki Khatir and Shaadi Se Pehle in 2006, Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love, Gandhi, My Father and Naqaab in 2007 and Mere Baap Pehle Aap in 2008. Akshaye later appeared in Abbas-Mustan’s blockbuster thriller film Race in 2008. This film became the 4th highest-grossing film of the year and his character as Rajeev Singh earned him the Screen Awards and IIFA Awards for Best Villain. But his performance as Harilal Gandhi, the son of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Darshan Jariwala) in the critically acclaimed biographical drama film, ‘Gandhi, My Father’ was considered as his best performance as an actor. 

In the year 2010, Akshaye was starred in the action-comedy film, No Problem, along with Sanjay Dutt and Kangana Ranaut in the lead role. He was also praised by his performances in the action thriller film, Aakrosh and in the heist comedy film, Tees Maar Khan in 2010. Besides acting, Akshaye voiced the character of Alex the Parrot in the 3D animated film, Delhi Safari in 2012. He was also featured in the Hindi comedy film, Gali Gali Chor Hai, along with Shriya Sarn and Mugdha Godse. 

After this, he took a hiatus from acting and recently made a comeback in the upcoming action-adventure film, Dishoom, helmed by Rohit Dhawan and is expected to release in the year 2016.

Arshad Warsi is most popular for his role as Circuit in the super hit Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Born in to a Muslim family; he attended a boarding school and at the age of 14, this led to many struggles in his early life. 

He began working as a salesman at the age of 17 but had shown interest in dancing. His interest changed in to a profession as he joined the Akbar Sami’s Dance group, which started his choreography and dancing career. 

Arshad’s film career began in 1996 when he was offered a role by Amitabh Bachchan’s production house film Tere Mera Sapne.  He was then provided with numerous roles but none of them were too successful. He became a prominent actor after starring opposite Sanjay Dutt in Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards. Warsi poured his heart out in the role and it paid off as it lead to the many film offers for him. He was signed in supporting roles for Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya and of course the sequel to Munna Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. 

Along with his successful career, Warsi became a family man when he married Maria Goretti in 1999. The two have two children, a son and a daughter.

Bollywood actor Chunky Pandey’s career graph provides for interesting reading, with all its ups and downs and twists and turns. For the sake of records, he has an impressive list of over 80 films against his name and in 2015 has achieved a silver jubilee in his filmy career, but these figures can hardly convey the vicissitudes that his career had to go through. It would be best to look at his career in three distinct phases – the initial phase when he entered the industry and within a short time got noticed for his roles, (although not really in lead ones); the second phase when he suffered from the frustration at not being able to break the jinx in Bollywood of being cast in successful lead roles, and deciding to foray into Bangladeshi cinema; and the last and most recent phase when he decided to try his fortune once again in Bollywood, and still continuing his efforts in the rather changed circumstances compared to his initial years there. It may be difficult to pass judgement on which of these phases has been his most successful one, as they were all in different circumstances and at different periods. In an isolated manner, may be his Bangladeshi phase was the most successful, as all his films there were in lead roles, and he had been able to build up a good fan base which was quite overawed by a Bollywood star “condescending” to work in their midst, although all this happening without his being able to speak a word of Bengali. More rationally, his first phase was perhaps the most eventful and successful too, with his bagging the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his “Tezaab”. At the same time from a personal perspective it must have been a disappointment for him as he did not get many lead roles. He did act in several films like “Aag Hi Aag” released in 1987, having Dharmendra & Mousumi in the lead; followed in 1988 by two Dharmendra starrers “Paap Ki Duniya” and “Khatron Ke Khiladi” ; “Ghar Ka Chiraag” in 1989 with Rajesh Khanna and finally “Mitti Aur Sona” in the same year where he at last got a lead role. The irony is that with the advent of new generation actors like the Shahrukh Khans and Amir Khans he could not come into the lime light, and continued to fester as the aide or friend to the main heroes like Rajesh Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Govinda etc. Even in hits like “Aankhen” the limelight was on Govinda although they formed an equally creditable pair. In his return phase in 2003, after the sojourn in Bangladesh, he made a determined effort to claw back into a niche position, but ended up with mixed results. Starting off with minor roles and some good acting, though in bizarre movies of Ram Gopal Varma, he could ultimately make a mark with “Housefull”, appearing both in the original and the sequel, both of which were hits, offering some solace and hope of better times to come.

He was born on 17 December 1955 in Mumbai. His occupation is Theater and film actor. He is an Indian actor. He worked on Gujarati Theater. In Gujarati Theater, he is the most celebrated Theater artist. He has the record of over 10,000 live performances. His son name is Ishaan Randeria. He associated with cinema and stage. He has won multiple awards as a director, actor and writer.

Mushtaq is a well known person in the Indian television and film industries. He has given more than three decades to Indian cinema and television. He was born in Baihar, Madhya Pradesh. He started his career at an early age with the movie named “Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai”, in 1980. He played a character of Lecherous Shopper trying to flirt with Smita Patil. In the same year, he worked in the movie, “Thodisi Bewafaii”. His character was named “Mustaq”, who was a worker with a sick wife. Later, he worked in many movies like Sajaye Maut, Kalia, Congregation, Angaarey, Kabzaa, Main Azad Hoon, Aakhri Gulam, Sathi, Sadak, Lakshamanrekha, Zulm Ki Hukumat, Dharavi, Saatwan Aasman, Raja, Milan, Baazi and many more. He got recognised by the super hit movie “Hum Hai Rahi Pyar Ke”. He played a character of Bhagwati Prasad Mishra. He played various characters in various movies and won the heart of the Indian audience through his humorous acting.